Filling the gap for a comprehensive account of experimental techniques currently used in modern nuclear structure studies, this book covers nuclear fusion processes including plasma processes in astrophysics, laser spectroscopy and isotope separation. A must have for nuclear, particle and astrophysicists alike, the monograph will equally serve as a valuable source for graduate lecture courses in modern nuclear physics.
Introduction
Starting point
Nucleon-nucleon interaction, ab-initio calculations of light nuclei
Shell structure and its modification far from stability
Collectivity at low and high energies (vibrations, rotations, giant
resonances, pygmy resonance)
Neutron and proton drip line (halos)
Superheavy elements
N=Z nuclei and isospin symmetry
Shape coexistence
Production of radioactive ion beams
Ground state properties
Gamma-ray spectroscopy
Radioactive decays
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Reiner Kruecken is full professor at the Technical University of Munich, Germany. After earning his PhD at the University of Cologne, he worked at Lawrence Berkeley Nat?l Lab and at Yale University, and served as director of the Maier-Leibnitz-Laboratory, Germany. He has participated in numerous international collaborations on nuclear research. His current research focuses on nuclear spectroscopy of exotic nuclei, and matter in nuclei in general.
